Book contents
- The Child’s Right to Development
- The Child’s Right to Development
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Embedding the Protection of ‘Child Development’ into International Children’s Rights Law
- 2 Creating the Right to Development of Children
- 3 The Interpretation of the Right to Development by the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child
- 4 Exploring the Meanings of Human and Child Development
- 5 A New Framework for Analysing the Child’s Right to Development
- Conclusion
- References
- Index
5 - A New Framework for Analysing the Child’s Right to Development
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 July 2019
- The Child’s Right to Development
- The Child’s Right to Development
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Embedding the Protection of ‘Child Development’ into International Children’s Rights Law
- 2 Creating the Right to Development of Children
- 3 The Interpretation of the Right to Development by the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child
- 4 Exploring the Meanings of Human and Child Development
- 5 A New Framework for Analysing the Child’s Right to Development
- Conclusion
- References
- Index
Summary
This chapter offers a new framework for analysing the child’s right to development. The framework is based on a number of key elements. First, it is situated within the broad protection of ‘child development’ in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. Second, it promotes the protection of child development as a human right of children, rather than as a matter of welfare or charity.1 Third, it utilises a hybrid conception of childhood that departs from the dichotomy of the ‘human beings’ and ‘human becomings’ models, and provides greater respect for children’s agency. Fourth, it draws a clearer distinction between the meaning of the right to development as a guiding principle of the Convention and its distinct meaning as an independent human right of the child. Using this framework in conjunction with a cross-disciplinary understanding of child development can lead, I argue, to the creation of a more comprehensive and concrete interpretation of the child’s right to development.
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- The Child's Right to Development , pp. 186 - 210Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019